The World of The Smiths and Morrissey by Angie J Cooke nee Lewis

THE RECESSION: A COMPANY IN PROFILE THE ROUGH TRADE GROUP It's a right Rough Trade, is the entertainment business! For the Final Year Project of my A Level equivalent course ( BTEC National Certificate in Business and Finance ) which I completed at what was then Huddersfield Technical College (now Kirklees College Huddersfield Centre ), I submitted an assignment entitled: "The Recession and Rough Trade" , which involved me investigating and examining the impact of the economic decline of the time in 1991 on an iconic record label.  I was required to relay my findings by means of a presentation, which I was able to achieve with the aid of some significant props.  These were vinyl releases (from my personal collection) by The Smiths , by a considerable distance the biggest success story in the "indie" music scene in which the label founder Geoff Travis , who signed the band to Rough Trade  before they split in 1987, played a huge part. The lege...

THE SMITHS AND MORRISSEY RESEARCH QUESTIONNAIRE/SURVEY UPDATE: I devised and completed this questionnaire/survey in September 2015. Since then, I've seen Johnny Marr live, met him on a separate occasion (squeal/swoon!), saw Morrissey perform for the first time in 21 years (wow!), had 3 radio interviews (BBC Radio Manchester and BBC Radio Leeds), appeared on UK TV (BBC North West Today/Tonight (local), BBC Four (national)), attended the 2017 #MozArmy Meet in Manchester, featured alongside other contributors in a book called "Pieces of Morrissey" which was published in 2017, and met Mike Joyce at Salford Lads Club during an event held for Tinnitus Research (I say!).  Oh, and I'm now a vegan, too! Phew! Pieces of Morrissey by Matthew Jacobson: Cover and a sample of my contribution About You: Name Mrs Angela Jennifer Cooke :  Angie, Ange or AJ  to my friends (I was formerly  Angie J Lewis , which is my maiden name).  I also ...